KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah received the credentials of 13 foreign envoys to Malaysia at Istana Negara here on Wednesday (Nov 10).
Present at the ceremony was Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku Hajah Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah.
Deputy Foreign Minister Datuk Kamaruddin Jaffar and Foreign Ministry secretary-general Datuk Seri Muhammad Shahrul Ikram Yaakob were also present.
The envoys are: Bulat Sugurbayev of Kazakhstan; Nineta Barbulescu (Romania); Dr Hajara Salim Ibrahim (Nigeria); Edmundo Font Lopez (Mexico); Dr Justin Lance Lee (Australia); Andreas Launer (Austria); Dr Joachim Bergstrom (Sweden); Irfan Davudov (Arzebaijan); Morten Paulsen (Norway); B.N. Reddy (India); Massimo Rustico (Itali); Datuk Mahmud Saidin (Brunei Darussalam); and Ragai Tawfik Said Nasr (Egypt).
Sugurbayev was director of the Department of the Americas of Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry from 2015 to February this year, while Barbulescu was Romanian Non-Resident Ambassador to Nauru in 2019.
Hajara has served as head of the Table Division of Nigeria’s House of Representatives National Assembly between 1993 and 2015.
Lopez was Mexico's Ambassador to St Lucia from 2012 to 2013, while Lee was the senior career officer at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs.
Launer was Austria’s Consul General in Los Angeles in 2017, while Bergstrom was Swedish Ambassador to North Korea for two years from 2019.
Davudov is formerly head of division at Azerbaijan’s Youth Policy and Sport Issues Department, while Paulsen was Norwegian Consul General in Texas from 2015 to 2019.
Reddy was the joint secretary (International Cooperation) for India’s Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry, while Rustico was Italian Ambassador to Hungary for five years since 2016.
Mahmud has served as Brunei High Commissioner to Pakistan from 2015 to this year, while Ragai was Egyptian Ambassador to Zambia from 2014 to 2017. – Bernama